WOMEN & FILM UNDER COMMUNISM
A REPORT FROM THE ARCHIVE

This site provides an intro to the history of women in Polish documentary cinema. It presents some of the most prolific female filmmakers who, under Communism, managed to develop directing careers at the Documentary Film Studio in Warsaw.

Men don't know about it

Men don't know about it / Mężczyźni o tym nie wiedzą 1957

Directed by Jerzy Kaden.

Written by Bronisława Wachowiak

and Jerzy Kaden

Directed by a man but co-written by a woman, this is a distinctive example of a documentary film revealing the disparity between the official gender discourse and the social reality of the Polish female.